PEEBLES, P.J.E. [Edward O. Wilson].
Principles of Physical Cosmology.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press , 1993.
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First Edition of Principles of Physical Cosmology; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist P.J.E. Peebles to American Naturalist Edward O. Wilson
First edition of this comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the science of the universe by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with graphs, equations, and diagrams. Association copy, inscribed by the author to biologist Edward O. Wilson, "With best wishes to you, Edward Jim Peebles 14 May 2021." The recipient, Edward Osborne Wilson, was an American biologist, naturalist, and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author widely regarded as one of the greatest natural scientists of the twentieth century, whose career at Harvard University across nearly five decades produced foundational contributions to entomology, evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and the theory of sociobiology that permanently transformed our understanding of the biological basis of social behavior in animals and humans alike. His seminal works include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), On Human Nature (1978), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Ants (1990, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler), which also won a Pulitzer Prize, and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), in which he argued with characteristic audacity that all branches of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the humanities, are fundamentally unified by a small number of natural laws. A Harvard University professor for 46 years who authored more than 430 scientific papers and more than 20 books on the natural sciences, Wilson received more than 150 international awards and was honored by the World Science Festival on his eightieth birthday as a figure whose intellectual legacy spanned the full breadth of the life sciences. From the library of Edward O. Wilson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with Wilson's name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Principles of Physical Cosmology (1993) is the definitive work of Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born 1935), the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus at Princeton University and recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded jointly for theoretical discoveries that have contributed to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and the physical cosmology of dark matter and dark energy. A successor to Peebles's earlier landmark volume Physical Cosmology (Princeton, 1971), which established the framework for a series of challenging new theoretical proposals that helped shape the field of cosmological studies, the book is a comprehensive overview addressed not only to students but also to scientists active in fields outside cosmology, presenting the full scope of physical cosmology as a mature and observationally grounded science. The book presents the elements of physical cosmology, including the history of the discovery of the expanding universe; surveys the cosmological tests that measure the geometry of spacetime, with a discussion of general relativity as the basis for these tests; and reviews the origin of galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe, encompassing in a single authoritative volume the theoretical, observational, and historical dimensions of a field to whose development Peebles had been the single most consequential contributor over the preceding three decades.
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